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Name: The King Must Die

Author: Mary Renault
Year: 1958
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Popularity: 3.6
Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fantasy, Classic, Adventure
Culture: Greece

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ISBN:
9780450046032
9780451033208
9780553207064
9780553260656
0450046036
0451033205
0553207067
0553260650
From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
A spellbinding blend of myth, legend, history and imagination, here is Mary Renault's famous novel of Theseus, a prince of ancient Greece said to have been conceived of a union between a royal priestess and the powerful god Poseidon. It is the story of a boy in search of his heroic birthright, of a young man whose strange moira, or fate, was to be revealed in the deadly bull ring and decadent courts of Crete, in the arms of women royal and lowly, in extradordinary adventures that challenged his passion, wit and daring, and in a strange kingdom where the mother goddess ruled as queen and the king was a lustily pampered consort condemned to death at the end of his year's reign...

This story is continued in The Bull From the Sea


This book is part of the "Theseus" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
The Bull from the Sea
First published 1962
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